Great story coming out of Portland, Ore., courtesy of TV station KATU 2 there. A coffee shop has finally managed to get rid of a guy who was tapping into its free Wi-Fi service. From his pickup truck outside. For the last three months.

Twenty-year-old Alexander Eric Smith spent his days sitting outside Brewed Awakenings tapping in and tapping away on his laptop. Management figured it out and asked him to stop. Then police asked him to stop. And when he still came back, he got busted for "theft of services."

Oh, and Smith is a registered sex offender as well.

Funniness (and weirdness) aside, this could set an interesting precedent on use and abuse of coffee shop Wi-Fi service.

Speaking of which, we'd love to hear from some coffee shop employees out there who have stories about creepy Wi-Fi users who hang out at the java stand all day nursing one cup of latte.

San Francisco's Bellamax Inc. has introduced photo editing software geared to those who like to snap photos as a hobby.

Bellamax retooled the product, UpShot, that it had been making for the professional market. The tool has a feature called Fast Fix that the company claims automatically removes red eye. (Can it also remove 10 pounds? Now that would be innovation.)

Bellamax claims that loads of people aren't satisfied with the photo-editing software out there. So, until July 1, the company is offering the $29.99 software for the low, low price of free at www.upshotphoto.com.

InterWest Partners said it has picked up onetime Siebel executive Bruce Cleveland. The Menlo Park firm wants Cleveland to leverage his nearly three decades of operating experience to find investment opportunities in software and services.

Cleveland, one of the original members of the Siebel executive team, previously worked in engineering and product management at Apple and Oracle.

InterWest is investing its ninth fund to the tune of $600 million.

-- Jessica Guynn

Internet TV

Check out live-online-tv.com, an Internet TV channel that just announced the addition of 120 channels of programming.

We gave it a bit of a test ride. Despite the fact that the interface is rudimentary and the streaming was a bit hit or miss, it's pretty neat to be able to watch everything from Bloomberg News to BBC to MTV to African music videos on the Net whenever you want. I'd like to know how they got the permissions on big news sites like ABC and C-SPAN, as well.

It appears several international news sites are on the runway. Two pieces of advice: Get a better name. Gussy up the site a bit.

-- Al Saracevic

Google envy

A tech metrics company says that nearly 80 percent of Microsoft's users actually use Google to conduct their Internet searches, according to a story in the Inquirer.

An outfit called Techweb told the paper that, of users originating from Microsoft's domain who reached a certain Web site they were monitoring, only 20 percent used a Microsoft search engine.